Author: Richard ZHAO Incident Investigations and Threat Intelligence Threat intelligence, as the cornerstone of defenses against advanced threats, has had its significance fully recognized by the administration and the security community, as demonstrated in lots of conferences and forums held across the globe, numerous reports written around threat intelligence, and related products and subscriptions emerging […]

Overview On October 20, 2021, NSFOCUS detected that Oracle released the October Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixed 419 vulnerabilities of varying risk levels. The update involves multiple commonly used products, such as Oracle MySQL, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Java SE, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Retail Applications. Oracle strongly recommends that users fix these […]

As an old saying goes, “Rome was not built in a day”, it is impossible to build AISecOps capabilities simply by following the example of other businesses. In fact, the most topical and mature AI technology is widely applied, but needs to be delved a little deeper. For instance, typical intelligence services like intelligence speech […]

Core Connotations Literally, AISecOps is composed of three core technologies, i.e. AIOps, AISec, and SecOps. AISec-enabled technology fusion brings new expectations to the industry. Both AI security and AI-based security applications have become hot topics in academia and industry. AI has been successfully applied in multiple single-point security technologies and specified scenarios, such as malware […]

Overview According to NSFOCUS CERT’s monitoring, Microsoft released October Security Updates on October 13 to fix 81 vulnerabilities, including high-risk vulnerabilities like privilege escalation and remote code execution, in widely used products like Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Exchange Server. This month’s security updates fix 3 critical vulnerabilities and 70 important ones, including […]

Overview According to NSFOCUS CERT’s monitoring, VMware’s official security advisory, disclosing multiple vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server on September 22. Those issues allow attackers to cause information disclosure, privilege promotion and remote code execution. Now VMware has released security updates to fix the vulnerabilities. Affected users are advised to take measures for protection. vCenter Server […]

With the boom of the global digital economy, cybersecurity is converging with the Internet of Things (IoT), industrial Internet, cloud computing, and 5G, bringing about disruptive changes to security in various aspects, including traditional physical security, biological security, public security, and national security. Meanwhile, the attack surface keeps expanding in cyberspace as malicious attackers, larger […]

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS found that XStream released security advisories disclosing 14 security vulnerabilities in its products. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to conduct a DoS, server-side request forgery (SSRF), or remote code execution (RCE) attack. XStream is a tool to serialize Java objects to XML and back again. When serializing JavaBeans or deserializing XML […]

Overview On September 8, Beijing time, NSFOCUS CERT found that Microsoft released a security bulletin to disclose a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Microsoft MSHTML. Attackers could craft a malicious ActiveX control to be used by a Microsoft Office document that hosts the browser rendering engine, and convince the user to open a malicious […]

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, usually involving multiple steps. This necessitates corresponding protections. Attack path analysis is a process of analyzing detected attacks from the network attributes, alerts, vulnerabilities, and assets, finding out the attack logic, and identifying attack paths. Such analysis can inform security operations personnel in their event and risk analysis so that […]